"So she gets understanding and patience and you don't? Everyone else's messy decisions get to make sense but not yours?"
He knows that script too.
"Why should you have assumed that people like you, in a place you were from, after experiencing severe loss, wouldn't want you? And why did you need to be needed in order to be loved?"
Alright, that one hurt, and he might have to spend some time thinking about how his call-outs apply to him younger self.
"No, I don't find it pathetic. I quite frankly don't see how it didn't break you. When we're discarded and shut out that consistently, it's the only way to survive. But the longer you're there the harder it is to open up again. Most people just...turn to stone." Or worse.
"You're taking responsibility for everyone else failing you, my love. It wasn't you. You didn't do anything wrong. There was no magic formula to make them love you properly. They just failed you."
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He knows that script too.
"Why should you have assumed that people like you, in a place you were from, after experiencing severe loss, wouldn't want you? And why did you need to be needed in order to be loved?"
Alright, that one hurt, and he might have to spend some time thinking about how his call-outs apply to him younger self.
"No, I don't find it pathetic. I quite frankly don't see how it didn't break you. When we're discarded and shut out that consistently, it's the only way to survive. But the longer you're there the harder it is to open up again. Most people just...turn to stone." Or worse.
"You're taking responsibility for everyone else failing you, my love. It wasn't you. You didn't do anything wrong. There was no magic formula to make them love you properly. They just failed you."